The Sixth Form students who completed an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), which is worth half an A Level, last year gained excellent results. 100% of the students achieved A*- B, 83% achieved A*-A, and 67% achieved A*. Lily Danson, Raphael McMahon, Olivia Wallace and Adam […]
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A Level Results Day 2018
We provide an up-to-date account of the A Level results day as and when it happened.
Let me qualify that… what is the endgame of a school education?
As CHS prepares to launch it’s new Sixth Form Pathways, CHS Head, Lucy Pearson considers what awaits Year 13 school leavers, the true meaning of what it is to be ‘qualified’ and how today’s students can best prepare themselves for what lies ahead.
International Women’s Day
Upper Sixth student, Phoebe McGowan is a member of Cheadle Hulme School’s Equality Society and has been promoting International Women’s Day throughout the school. Here, she explores the origins of International Women’s Day and how the messages translate in modern media. On March 8th, 1917 […]
Languages in the Sixth Form: How do we recruit more students?
Head of Modern Languages, Mr John Wilson asks how School’s can encourage more students to study languages at A Level and Pre-U and offers his 10 tips to recruit linguists in to the Sixth Form. The challenges of recruiting linguists in the Sixth Forms remain. We […]
Surviving the UCAS Application Process: A Parent’s Guide
The Year 11 exam season is in full swing and whilst students are studiously revising for this crucial time in their educational journey, thoughts begin to wonder to the next stage of that journey; where will they study at Sixth Form? Included in the process […]
Choosing to Change: The ‘Moving Schools’ Dilemma
“Moving to Cheadle Hulme School was honestly one of the best decisions I have ever made…but it was a completely unexpected one!” – Emma Wylie, Upper Sixth At this time of year, as families’ post boxes flutter to the sound of much anticipated offer letters […]
Washington DC: A Sixth Form Experience
It is a bright and chilly November morning on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, the day before the 2014 midterm elections. We are in Washington DC for one of Cheadle Hulme School’s biennial History and Politics trips and, although visiting …
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An Audience with UKIP’s Steven Woolfe MEP
UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe certainly headed off any hostile audience members from the start of his visit to Cheadle Hulme School’s Politics society, Think Tank , asking the back row whether they were preparing themselves to pelt him with rotten …
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A Revision Guide…for Parents: Avoiding Study Leave Stress
The internet is awash with revision advice for stressed students at this time of year, but what about parents? How can we best manage the carrot and stick balance, whilst maintaining our own sanity? Recognise this is genuinely a very stressful time for students – […]
International Justice Mission: Violence, Trafficking and Slavery
The first article of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states ‘all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’ – irrespective of a person’s race, gender, sexual orientation or religion or political beliefs. Yet Hannah Flint, Development Executive for IJM– […]
Belgium Bound – An Audience with Chris Davies, Liberal Democrat MEP
It is more than a little strange to come face to face with a person who is employed to represent your views to a Parliament whose representatives span an entire continent. But it is even weirder when you are happily …
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